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It IS extremely gratifying to find, that the Tremell® as
well as other difficffit tribes of cryptogamic plants, are at length
g i n n i n g t o h a v e d e f i n i t e b o u n d a r i e s a f f i x e d t o them. E q u a l l y rrionfn f7^^^^“^°^"^thors, Tremella seemed
long period to be the universal receptacle for every thing
JVot content, besides, with regarding it as a sort of hopeless ac
cumulation of undefinable substances (to some of which the very
name of plant was denied by the superstitious vulgar), one party
discarded them from the Alg®, while another rejetted t h l
fiom the l ungi. The unfortunate Tremell® were, in short a
stumbling-block in the path of botanical science, and it is only
very recently that it has been removed, in a great measure, by
judicious subdivision into new genera. One of these we have
ours of Dr N e e s V o n E s e n b e c k . The genus Baer?/.
i ^«cl'ides Tremella f r a -
/Z Z \ ^ o rfo rm is of S m i t h (Engl. Bot.
t. 2446.), T .m o la c e a of R e l h a n , T. virescens of S c h u m
a c h e r , and T. SyrtngcB of the same author. A ll these
possess the same structure, and a sufficiently satisfactory habit
Fig. 1. Plants, nat. size. Figs. 2. & 3. Plants
and Spondia. magnified. Fig. 4. FUaments.